Making A Hoard

Not all ancient coin hoards were buried in haste, or in times of crisis. In an era before banking was invented, burying your surplus cash someplace you could easily find it later were the next best thing. And some hoards seem to have been ceremonially buried as an offering to the gods.


On an episode of (British) Time Team where they excavated a field where a huge pot full of 50,000 coins had been found earlier, they illustrated how difficult it would have been to bury the hoard by recreating it using a replica pot and 50,000 1p pieces. As far as I know, they left it there in the field for future archaeologists to find.

Ya , take them and buy a half oz silver :-)

If you live in a house with a back yard, try this. Call a contractor, have him excavate a hole in your back yard about 12 cubic feet. Have him pour a concrete floor, walls and roof and such that the roof is about a foot or so below the rest of the yard. Now have him add a stair case from your house, down to that room. All should now be covered with dirt and sod.
NO, NO not for those coins. For barrels to make illigal wine. The coins, just take them to a bank.
Sound dumb. I've got a neighbor that did that.

12 cubic feet? Let's see that's 2 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet deep. Less the thickness of the concrete walls. So about the size of a small trunk.